“The Linux kernel trumps the moonshot both in terms of engineering effort and societal impact by a few orders of magnitude. The kernel is the largest, most complex collaborative effort in the history of the species. That may sound somewhat grandiose, but it’s very much true. The Linux kernel is over 17 million lines of code and is growing at an average rate of 3,500 lines per day. Nearly 1,300 developers contribute to Linux with versions like 2.6.25 generating more than 12,000 patches. The Linux kernel powers over 93% of the TOP500 Supercomputers. The kernel is at the heart of Android which has a nearly 60% share of the mobile operating system market with 1.5 million device activations a day. The kernel also powers millions of servers across companies that have transformed the way we consume information and communicate with one another such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Twitter.”

The micropublishing explosion has begun | PandoDaily "And so it has come to pass. The Magazine is no longer alone as an enterprising app-magazine. It has been joined on the Newsstand by a host of publications put out by 29th Street Publishing, which acts as a publisher and marketer for indie editors and writers, and now a clutch of other startups have entered the fray, each toting cheap or free tools that help regular schmoes produce and sell beautiful cross-platform publications. The options available to independent publishers have never been better, but it’s also likely that this space is going to get saturated quickly. Below is a rundown of the new companies that offer digital publishing products."